Spock and the Legacy of Star Trek

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday March 1, 2015 @07:19PM from the memories-of-the-many dept.

StartsWithABang writes While the nerd/geek world mourns the death of Leonard Nimoy in its own way, it's important to remember the legacy that Star Trek — and that Spock and alien characters like him — left on our world. Unlike any other series, Star Trek used a futuristic, nearly utopian world to explore our own moral battles and failings, and yet somehow always managed to weave in an optimism about humanity and our future. This is something, the author argues, that is sorely missing from the new J.J. Abrams movies.

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Re:Star Trek gave us a future to shoot for. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-01 21:34 · Score: 5, Informative

Where are the Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindu, Sikhs, Jains, etc etc. The answer is: They don't exist.

Sorry, you're attributing your own wishful thinking to Star Trek here. Kirk, McCoy, and Uhura have spoken of Christ. Khan Singh is a Sikh. Worf's parents are Jewish. And the Vulcan salute is a traditional Jewish benediction, intended as such by Nimoy himself.